HISTORY TOURS

History Tours

 

Below are some of the history tours we offer. Be sure to check our ‘Upcoming Trips’ for details.
Or contact us with questions or requests

Ft. Mose

St. Augustine, Fl

Fort Mose, an African American community of Freedom in what is now the United States, symbolizes determination, bravery and hope. Enslaved African seeking freedom and a better life undertook a dangerous journey to Spanish Florida, with the help of regional Yemassee Native Americans. This was the first “underground railroad!”

A typical tour includes:

  • Roundtrip Transportation
  • Tour Guide: Tour of Fort Mose
  • Tram Tour of St. Augustine
  • Tour of Lincolnville, FL (Where “MLK” visited)
  • 1963 &1964 Civil Right Bill passage
  • stop at St. Augustine Outlet Mall

Harry T. Moore Museum

Mims, FL & Bartow, FL

Civil Rights Activist, Harry T. Moore, Born in 1906 and died in 1951, was President of the Brevard County Branch of the NAACP for seventeen years. Moore traveled through Florida organizing NAACP branches, investigating lynching, protesting acts of police brutality and organizing voter registration campaigns.

In 1951 on Christmas Eve a bomb planted under Moore’s small six-room cottage in Mimms, FL killed Moore and his wife, Harriette. The case still remains open at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Tour Includes: Roundtrip transportation and Tour Guide

City of Rosewood Tour

Rosewood, FL

The “Rosewood” massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida. At least six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed during what was characterized as a race riot.

Visit Bethune Cookman University in Daytona Beach, FL to see “Rosewood Archives.”

Tour Includes Deluxe Motor Coach Transportation by Road Ready Tours.

L. B. Brown Historic House

Bartow, FL

See the historic sites of African American of Tampa, FL!
Experience the legacy of former slave – From Slave to Entrepreneur.

  • Roundtrip transportation & tour guide
  • Tour of Keel & Curley Winery, Plant City, FL
  • Lunch @ “Smokin Aces BBQ” located at Winery (on your own).

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